• 6th highest gross metro product.
  
• 4th largest total personal income.
  
• 4th largest media market.
  
• A large market and a major economic force with a total 2005 population of 6.1 million people and total employment in 2005 of 2.9 million jobs.
  
• 2nd largest on the East Coast in terms of employment, population and income.
  
• 4th largest metropolitan region in the U.S. population, following only New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

Source: The Claritas demographic data based was used to estimate the total population, households and income located within a 200 mile radius of downtown Philadelphia; estimates were also derived for 10 other large cities (New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles and San Francisco).